In a speech to a U.S.pro-Israel group on Monday, Clinton blasted Republican candidate Donald Trump for his shifting foreign policy positions.
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“Hillary Clinton … and President Obama have treated Israel very, very badly”.
Responding to the criticism, Trump said Clinton’s Middle East policies “haven’t worked”, and “she doesn’t know anything about my policy”. We need steady hands, not a president who says he is neutral on Monday, pro-Israel on Tuesday, and who knows what on Wednesday because everything’s negotiable.
“Well, my friends, Israel’s security is nonnegotiable!” she said. But on Monday, he pledged his full support.
“I’m an outsider, ” Trump said.
Just as Clinton also now promises to pursue a “distrust but verify” policy towards Iran – while claiming she “forced Iran to the negotiating table” to make a deal that will “put a lid on its nuclear program” and make Israel safer. Why is it that other countries that are in the vicinity of the Ukraine not dealing with – why are we always the one that’s leading, potentially the third world war, okay, with Russian Federation?
“We will totally dismantle Iran’s global terror network”, Trump said. But at the AIPAC meeting, he appeared more subdued than usual. He pledged to relocate the American embassy to the “eternal capital of the Jewish people, Jerusalem”.
“I didn’t come here to pander to you about Israel”, Trump said.
While Trump was due to address AIPAC later on Monday, Clinton also referred to his proposal to temporarily ban all foreign Muslims from entering the USA and “playing coy with white supremacists”.
Trump spoke in the late afternoon session of the program, after Gov. John Kasich of OH and before Sen.
Trump himself met privately with Republican officials at the Capitol Hill law offices of his election attorney.
Sen. Bernie Sanders, who is Jewish, is the only presidential candidate not to address AIPAC, instead choosing to campaign out west.
“If people want to be smart, they should embrace this movement”, Trump declared at a news conference, shrugging off passionate resistance to his candidacy from both parties. He’s come under fire for previously saying he’s “neutral” in the Israel-Palestinian conflict, though he’s repeatedly said he supports Israel. And he promised, if elected, to defeat terror groups including the Taliban, Al Qaeda and the Islamic State.
“Iran is much, much further away from obtaining a nuclear weapon than they were a year ago”, Biden said, telling the activists that the U.S.is “watching Iran like a hawk”.
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Citing the latest Iranian ballistic missile tests as “provocations”, Clinton said it was “unacceptable and should be answered firmly and quickly, including with more sanctions”. “This deal is a catastrophe for America, for Israel, and for the whole of the Middle East”.
